Schoodic Peninsula is a special place in Maine. As the only part of Acadia National Park attached to the mainland, it doesn’t see as much traffic as Mt Desert Island. The rocky points that reach out into the Atlantic make for great pictures as the waves crash against granite. On the way we investigated a…

First full day in Maine was spent with Randy & Linda Haskell giving us a tour of Acadia National Park on Mt Desert Island. Started with tidepools in the fog, moved on to a short hike and found Bass Harbor Lighthouse where I’d played with the light house keeper’s son when I was a kid.…

We’re on our way to Maine, just not by boat. Rented a car in Plattsburgh, NY this morning, took a ferry across Lake Champlain, and headed across the top of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine to get to Ellsworth, Maine. Mark’s Aunt and Uncle have loaned us a condo!   The Ben & Jerry’s Ice…

Aunt Brenda and Noah took a summer-time ride on the Olympic bobsled run at Mount Van Hoevenberg. Fifty-six seconds from the half-way point and they got up to almost sixty mph!  Today was Beth’s birthday and we went to Lake Placid and enjoyed the mountain views, streams and waterfalls.

Right here it’s kinda’ like our own nature park. There are snails, chipmunks, mice, hummingbirds and loons which are kind of like birds in the water.  Up here there are alot of old games and stuff. Stuff that my dad had when he was a boy. There is a four year old girl that lives…